House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Dave Camp (center), R-Mich., ? flanked by the committee's ranking Democrat, Rep. Sander Levin (right), D-Mich., and Rep. Sam Johnson, R-Texas ?makes an opening statement on Capitol Hill in Washington on Oct. 29, 2013, during the committee's hearing with Marilyn Tavenner, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.Rep. Todd Young, R-Ind. is at left.

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Indiana Rep. Todd Young asked an Obama administration official Tuesday whether an effort to withhold health care regulations until after the 2012 presidential election is one of the reasons that this month's rollout of the Obamacare health exchanges had so many problems.

Bu Marilyn Tavenner, the director of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services which is overseeing implementation of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, said there was no delay in the regulatory process.

"At no point were we not either working on white papers, proposed regulations or just getting the work done," Tavenner ...